I've got a small 14" LCD display on my home server that I keep attached for whenever I want to access the console directly (I usually connect via RDP). This is connected to a box running Windows 2008 R2.

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You could take a look at Rainmeter - which is a skinnable and highly customisable application that can show information on your available system resources and battery power as well as the weather and RSS feeds.